Re: [Dri-devel] Re: mach64 work

[Daryll S. <da...@va...>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:03:53AM -0400, Carl Busjahn wrote:
> I've been very professional in both my applications to ATI, and so far, 
> they've just sat unanswered for months.  Is there some kind of trick to 
> it? Perphaps we (the mach64 developers) should start a sourceforge 
> project of our own, and have several people to develop the driver?

I can't help on how to get the docs, but I don't know why you'd want to
start your own project. We've offerred to give people CVS access
here, and starting another project would cause a lot of administrative
trouble for you, us, and XFree86.

Our typical rule is that you submit a couple patches before we give
write access to our CVS. That serves two purposes, it makes sure people
are doing real work instead of just asking for access because it would
be cool, and it gives us a chance to look over your work and make sure
it's reasonable before you start writing into our tree. As long as you
work on a branch and are careful about merging to the trunk that policy
seems to work pretty well for other outside groups like PPC and BSD.

The jam here is that since the board hangs when you submit packets, no
one has gotten a patch sent in. Anyone interested in working on the
Mach64 can check out the CVS tree anonymously and work on it. I expect
they have to tackle the hang first off. Once that's done real work can
start on the Mach64 and more people can contribute.

							- |Daryll